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Comverse Converged Billing Combines Kenan Business Solutions with Real-Time Billing

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Comverse has announced the availability of the Comverse Converged Billing Solution, This new product enables real-time customer management, which allows service providers and e-businesses worldwide to increase market agility and improve their operational efficiency.

This new customer care, ordering and billing solution is part of an overall portfolio – Comverse Converged Billing Suite – that includes optional solutions for point-of-sale (POS), self-care, electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP), voucher management, mediation, and content partner management. [Read more…]

Axiom Systems and AOL France to Co-Present at Next Gen OSS Integration Summit

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Axiom Systems, a leader in Service Fulfillment software for Communication Service Providers, and AOL France, part of Time Warner Inc., one of the largest global media and entertainment companies, have announced a joint case study presentation at IQPC’s Next Gen OSS Integration Summit in Boston, MA at 9.00am on Wednesday, September 27th 2006.

Like many of the leading Service Providers around the world, AOL France has recognized the need to rapidly create and deploy new services that seamlessly merge content and services to satisfy growing demand for “multi-play” solutions. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks Advances Revenue Assurance Standardization through TMF Guidebook

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cVidya Networks, a leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, has announced their contribution to the Revenue Assurance Guidebook, recently published by the TeleManagement Forum (TMF). Backed by major telecom operators, the guidebook aims to provide a standard for Revenue Assurance by creating a common language as well as a consensus on strategy and best practices. In parallel to its contribution to the standards included in the TMF Guidebook, cVidya Networks has incorporated these concepts in its MoneyMap® product and methodology as well. [Read more…]

Berg Insight Says Mobile Location-Based Services Revenues to Reach 622 Million in Europe

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Revenues from mobile location-based services (LBS) in the European market will grow by 34 percent annually to reach about $622 million in 2010, according to a new report from the research firm Berg Insight. Johan Fagerberg, senior analyst at Berg Insight, said that the market is picking up speed through successful launches of mobile personal navigation services and location based billing plans in several European countries.

“Nokia’s recent acquisition of Gate5 is an evident example of the importance mobile industry players attach to navigation”, said Johan. “We expect GPS-enabled handsets with preinstalled navigation software to become available from the leading brands on the European market very soon.” Berg Insight forecasts that navigation will account for 48 percent of mobile LBS revenues in 2010. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Defines Revenue Operations Center at Risk Management and Internal Audit in Telecoms 2006

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Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, will be exhibiting and speaking at the 9th Annual Risk Management and Internal Audit in Telecoms 2006 conference, which takes place at the Cafe Royal, London, UK between 18 and 19 September 2006.

Karthikeyan Ramnath, Product Manager, Subex Azure, will be presenting a session entitled “Reducing the Day Sales Outstanding (DSO) using the Revenue Operations Center (ROC)” on Tuesday 19 September 2006. Karthikeyan will be looking at the benefits of collaboration between fraud and risk management; how the ROC is defined; aligning departmental strategies with corporate strategy, and how the ROC can enable operators to reduce DSO and more efficiently prioritise cases. [Read more…]

Veramark Elects Michael Holly to Its Board of Directors

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) has announced the election of Michael R. Holly to its Board of Directors. Mr. Holly is President of MRH Consulting, LLC, headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, PA, where he advises companies seeking debt and equity growth capital, and management groups involved in acquisitions and the execution of consolidation, growth, and value creation strategies. [Read more…]

Amdocs Expands Presence in China With Jilin Unicom Contract

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Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), today announced that Jilin Unicom signed a contract to have Amdocs consolidate and upgrade the company’s current rating and billing systems to create an integrated platform that allows its 4 million customers to personalize product bundles and choose flexible pricing plans. Jilin Unicom is the main service provider of the Jilin province, and is the only integrated telecommunications business there. Jilin Unicom is among Amdocs’ recent wins in China, a large and rapidly growing market. [Read more…]

Frost and Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on the Mobile Virtual Network Operators MVNOs

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The Information & Communications Technology Group at Frost & Sullivan will hold its Exclusive 2006 Quarterly Webinar on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. CDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT.

As competition in the mobile communications arena continues to build, the rise of MVNOs presents an opportunity for brand-strong entities, irrespective of their core business area, to play a significant role in the wireless services market without making investments in wireless infrastructure. Though fairly new to the wireless space in the U.S., MVNOs have made a popular impact in the industry with some key players such as Virgin Mobile, Boost and TRACFONE, having made an impact in a short time-span and some major names that sprung up, over the last one year, to join the bandwagon. [Read more…]

ACE-COMM Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006, both ending June 30, 2006.

For the year ended June 30, 2006, the Company recorded revenues of $26.7 million, compared to $20.0 million for fiscal year 2005. The Company had net income and income per fully diluted share of $0.3 million and $0.02, respectively, compared to a net loss and loss per fully diluted share of $6.5 million and $0.44 for fiscal year 2005. Revenues for the fourth quarter 2006 totaled $6.5 million compared to $6.8 million for the same quarter in fiscal year 2005. Net loss for the quarter was $0.5 million, or $0.03 per fully diluted share, compared to net income of $0.3 million, or $0.02 per fully diluted share for the same quarter a year ago. [Read more…]

TMNG and Intec Strengthen Relationship via Mobile Virtual Network Enabler MVNE Platform

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TMNG Global (Nasdaq: TMNG – News), a leading provider of management consulting services to the global communications, media and entertainment industries, and Intec Telecom Systems (LSE: ITL – News) has confirmed their strategic partnership following Intec’s acquisition of EUR Systems. The combination offering from the two companies offers a best in breed managed service that will continue to meet the needs of the mobile marketplace, including MVNOs, content companies and media players.

The solution combines TMNG’s proven Order to Cash process model, state of the art business management engine and Intec’s next generation back office systems (Ordering through Billing.) TMNG and Intec have had a longstanding relationship and expect their collaboration on the MVNE platform will provide their customers with a significant advantage as they launch their MVNOs. [Read more…]

Intec Billing Signs Convergent Billing Deal With MTNL India

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Intec Billing, a leading software vendor to telecom carriers operating fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has announced that Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), a full service telecoms provider and one of the largest internet service providers in India, has selected Intec to supply its convergent billing systems in a multi-million dollar deal. Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView) will form a key part of the carrier’s convergence strategy for rapid penetration and growth via innovative, next generation communications services in India. [Read more…]

Saul Nurtman of Subex Azure Appointed Revenue Assurance Chairperson at Global Billing Association GBA

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Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has announced that Saul Nurtman, the company’s President of EMEA, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the GBA’s (Global Billing Association) Revenue Assurance and Fraud Initiative. In his role of chairperson, Saul will help to shape the agenda of the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Initiative, as well as represent the GBA at a number of industry events.

Alex Leslie, CEO of the Global Billing Association, said, “We are delighted that Saul has joined the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Initiative. He brings a great deal of experience to the role having held high-level positions at some of the worlds most successful revenue assurance vendors. This can only serve to benefit our members.”

The Global Billing Association set up the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Initiative in 2005 to help promote better practice in the revenue assurance and revenue management sector, and demonstrate its importance and strategic value. The initiative aims to provide advice and frameworks in which revenue assurance can be implemented by operators worldwide. [Read more…]

Coastal Technologies Group CMP Platform Improves Call Detail Record Searches

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Coastal Technologies Group Inc. (CTGi), a leader in call detail processing, back-office accounting process and OSS support for the telecommunications industry, has announced enhanced Call Detail Record (CDR) search capabilities on its industry-leading ASP Call Management Platform (CMP). The new search enhancements can be based on any number of search criteria, by LATA, 10-digit phone number, switch id, or trunk, in order to perform exhaustive trend analysis, auditing, market intelligence and overall usage analytics.

“Tier 1 carriers generate billions of call detail records every day. They are under increasing pressure to process these CDRs quickly for further analysis, from resolving interconnect billing disputes, to better understanding network call routing patterns, to complying with law enforcement to investigate call pattern analysis,” said Jay Bowker, vice president of marketing and worldwide sales for Coastal Technologies Group.

Coastal Technologies Group has also announced that it has upgraded its CMP Dashboard, an easy-to-use monitoring tool which provides a near real-time window into regular processing status, usage volume and quality control metrics of call detail records. [Read more…]

Minacom and Sunrise Telecom Partner to Deliver Advanced VoIP and IPTV Testing Solutions

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Minacom, the foremost service quality test automation supplier to telcos and cable MSOs, and Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated, a leader in testing and monitoring solutions for voice, video, data services and next-generation digital multimedia, announced today they will work together to provide integrated test solutions for telcos and cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) offering VoIP and IP-Video services. The partnership will focus on combining the centralized test capabilities offered by Minacom’s DirectQuality(R) R7 service level test automation platform with the leading network and service test functionality available in Sunrise Telecom’s handheld FTTx, DSL, and cable test sets. [Read more…]

Atos Origin and Intelliden Form Alliance

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Intelliden Inc., a leading provider of standards-based network automation solutions, has announced an alliance with Atos Origin, an international IT services company. The combination of Intelliden’s industry-leading network automation software and Atos Origin’s world-class systems integration service capabilities will enable customers to better manage their increasingly complex networks while accelerating the time-to-market of new services. The initial focus of the partnership will be on the European communications service provider, focusing on wide area IP networks market where the companies have active projects underway with leading operators across the community.

Forward-looking Tier 1 service providers are rolling out IP networks to converge voice, data, video and other services onto one wide-area network. To achieve success, service providers must adopt network management best practices to drive operational efficiency, availability and security of these complex networks utilizing state of the art IP transport technologies. Intelliden’s R-Series(R) software suite combined with Atos Origin’s reach across the communications service provider sector, and its systems integration and change management expertise, provide customers with a complete solution for automating next-generation networks to accelerate revenues and reduce operating expenses. [Read more…]

TeleSciences Hires Peter Conquest

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TeleSciences, Inc., a leader in providing solutions to fixed, mobile and IP network operators and equipment vendors, today announced that Peter Conquest will be joining TeleSciences, Inc. as VP Sales, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Mr. Conquest, 46, brings over 20 years experience in sales and customer building to TeleSciences where he will be responsible for driving the company’s sales strategy and presence in those markets. [Read more…]

Telephony Magazine to Publish TeleManagement World 2006 Online

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Telephony(R), a Prism Business Media publication for telecom service providers, has announced a partnership with the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) to serve as the exclusive publisher of the Show Daily for TeleManagement World Americas 2006, Dec. 4-7 in Dallas. In addition to the online Show Daily and a series of e-newsletters related to the event, Telephony will produce a related print supplement on Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) in conjunction with its November 6 issue. [Read more…]

Veramark Announces Significant Order from State Government Agency

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) has announced receipt of a significant VeraSMART(R) order from a large state government agency. The agency plans to deploy the VeraSMART solution for 20,000 extensions at 34 sites with various Nortel VoIP and Legacy Meridian telephony platforms. VeraSMART’s Call Accounting module will be utilized to implement security measures and IP polling of remote sites for the agency.

The EZ-Share(TM) LDAP interface will be used to import data from an existing directory. The agency chose the VeraSMART Telemanagement solution based on its totally web-based interface, robust functionality, and ease of use. [Read more…]

Comptel Selected by Telecom Namibia For CDMA Voice and Data Provisioning and Mediation

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Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), an OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that it has been selected by Telecom Namibia to provide provisioning and mediation solutions for their CDMA voice and data services. The Comptel InstantLink provisioning solution will enable Telecom Namibia to activate new customers and services fast and efficiently. The Comptel EventLink mediation solution will ensure that usage information is collected effectively, so that Telecom Namibia can bill their customers in a timely way.

Oiva Angula, Acting Head of Corporate Communications and Public Relations at Telecom Namibia, said, “Enabling us to rapidly activate services for customers without any delays, and collecting information to reliably charge for these services, are obviously fundamental requirements for the success of Telecom Namibia. It was, therefore, vital that we chose the right solutions for provisioning and mediation. We selected Comptel InstantLink and Comptel EventLink because we knew that Comptel solutions interoperate smoothly with the CDMA networks of our chosen supplier, Huawei”.

As Namibia’s incumbent operator, Telecom Namibia needed provisioning and mediation solutions that would be able to work with their leading edge CDMA network, which is currently being deployed by equipment vendor Huawei. [Read more…]